3 从空无中创造的法则
And it is to Antigone that we must now turn.
现在我们必须回到安提贡尼。
Is she, as the classic interpretation would have it, the servant of a sacred order, of respect for living matter? Is hers the image of charity? Perhaps, but only if we confer on the word charity a savage dimension. Yet the path from Antigone's passion to her elevation is a long one.
依照古典的解释,她是神圣秩序的女儿,是对具有生命的物质的尊敬吗?她的意象是慈善的意象吗? 或许,只是我们要将慈善这个字词,赋予野蛮的维度。可是,从安提贡尼的激情到她的升华,是一条漫长的途径。
When she explains to Creon what she has done, Antigone affirms the advent of the absolute individual with the phrase "That's how it is because that's how it is." But in the name of what? And to begin with on the basis of what?I must quote the text.
当她对克瑞恩解释她曾经做到事,安提贡尼肯定这个绝对的个人的来临,用这个词语:「那是它的样子,因为那就是它的样子。」但是以怎样的名义?首先,根据什么的基础?我必须引述原文。
She says clearly, "You made the laws." But once again the sense is missed. Translated word for word, it means, "For Zeus is by no means the one who proclaimed those things to me." Naturally, she is understood to have said -and I have always told you that it is important not to understand for the sake of understanding - "It's not Zeus who gives you the right to say that." But she doesn't, in fact, say that. She denies that it is Zeus who ordered her to do it. Nor is it Δίκη, which is the companion or collaborator of the gods below. She pointedly distinguishes herself from Δίκη. "You have got that all mixed up," she, in effect, says. "It may even be that you are wrong in the way you avoid the Δίκη. But I'm not going to get mixed up in it; I'm not concerned with all these gods below who have imposed laws on men." ωρκσαν, όρίξω, ορός means precisely the image of an horizon, of a limit. Moreover, the limit in question is one on which she establishes herself, a place where she feels herself to be unassailable, a place where it is impossible for a mortal being to ύπβρδραμ&ν, to go beyond νόμιμα, the laws. These are no longer laws, νόμος, but a certain legality which is a consequence of the laws of the gods that are said to be άγραπτα, which is translated as "unwritten," because that is in effect what it means. Involved here is an invocation of something that is, in effect, of the order of law, but which is not developed in any signifying chain or in anything else.
她清楚地说,「你制定法律。」但是再一次,意义被失漏。逐字地翻译,它的意思是:「因为宙斯天神绝非是对我宣佈那些事情的人。」当然,我们理解她的意思是说—我总是告诉你们,这是很重要的,不要为了理解而理解—「宙斯天神并没有赋予你这个权力那样说。」但是事实上,她并没有那样说。她否认,宙斯天神命令她这样做。也不是世间的众神的同伴或是共谋者命令。她尖锐地区别她自己,跟同伴或共谋者。「你把所有那一切都搞混了。」实际上,她是这样说,「甚至你是错误,当你避开那个同伴或共谋。」但是我不要在里面被搞混。我跟世界的这些众神没有关系,他们赋加法则在人们身上。ωρκσαν, όρίξω, ορός 确实是意味着地平线的意象,限制的意象。而且,受到质疑的这个限制是她用来作为自己基础的限制,在那个地方,她感觉自己是不会被攻击得了。在那个地方,作为人的生物,无法超越法则。这些不再是法则,而是有某种的合法性,作为众神的法则的结果。这些众神据说是άγραπτα,,可翻译成为「不成文法」。因为那就是它实际上的意涵。在此被牵涉的是某种东西的召唤,实际上,就是法律秩序的东西。但是它并没有被发展,在能指化的锁链或是任何其他东西。
Involved is an horizon determined by a structural relation; it only exists on the basis of the language of words, but it reveals their unsurpassable consequence. The point is from the moment when words and language and the signifier enter into play, something may be said, and it is said in the following way: "My brother may be whatever you say he is, a criminal. He wanted to destroy the walls of his city, lead his compatriots away in slavery. He led our enemies on to the territory of our city, but he is nevertheless what he is, and he must be granted his funeral rites. He doubtless doesn't have the same rights as the other. You can, in fact, tell me whatever you want, tell me that one is a hero and a friend, that the other is an enemy. But I answer that it is of no significance that the latter doesn't have the same value below. As far as I am concerned, the order that you dare refer me to doesn't mean anything, for from my point of view, my brother is my brother."
被牵涉到的是一个结构关系所决定的地平线。它仅是存在于文字的语言的基础。但是它显示它们无法被克服的结果。重点是,从文字与语言跟能指进入运作的时刻,某件东西可能被说,据说是以底下的方式:「我的兄长可能是任何你所说的样子,是个罪犯。他想要毁灭他的城邦的墙壁,引导他的同胞脱离奴隶。他引导敌人前来我们城邦的领土。可是他仍然是他本来的样子。他必须被给予葬礼的仪式。无可置疑地,他并没有获的另外一位兄长相同的权利。事实上,你能够告诉我,任何你想要说的,告诉我,其中一位是英雄与朋友,另外一位是敌人。但是我的回答是,后者并没有拥有相同的价值这点,并不重要。就我而言,你胆敢跟我提到的那个命令,并没有任何意义。因为从我的观点,我的兄长就是我的兄长。」
That's the paradox encountered by Goethe's thought and he vacillates. My brother is what he is, and it's because he is what he is and only he can be what he is, that I move forward toward the fatal limit. If it were anyone else with whom I might enter into a human relationship, my husband or my children for example, they are replaceable; I have relations with them. But this brother who is άθατττος, who has in common with me the fact of having been born in the same womb - the etymology of the word αδελφός embodies an allusion to the womb - and having been related to the same father – that criminal father the consequences of whose crimes Antigone is still suffering from - this brother is something unique. And it is this alone which motivates me to oppose your edicts.
那就是歌德的思想遭遇的悖论,他摇摆不定。我的兄长就是那个样子。因为他就是他那个样子,仅有他能够成为他那个样子。我向前移动,朝向那个致命的限制。假如那是某位其他的人,我可能跟他有人际的关系,譬如,我的丈夫或我的小孩,他们是可替换的。我跟他们有关系。但是这位兄长跟我有共通的关系,是这个事实:我们是同一位母亲的子宫所生。这个字词αδελφός 的字源具体地提到子宫,跟相同的父亲有关联。由于那个罪犯的父亲的结果,他的罪恶,安提贡尼依旧遭受痛苦。兄长是某件独特的东西。仅有这个,引起我的动机要反对你们的宣称。
Antigone invokes no other right than that one, a right that emerges in the language of the ineffaceable character of what is - ineffaceable, that is, from the moment when the emergent signifier freezes it like a fixed object in spite of the flood of possible transformations. What is, is, and it is to this, to this surface, that the unshakeable, unyielding position of Antigone is fixed.
安提贡尼没有召唤别的权利,除了那个权利。这个权利出现在这个无法抹除掉特性的语言里,对于所无法抹除的东西。也就是说,从这个出现的能指将它冻结的时刻开始,就像是一件固定的东西,尽管可能转变的血亲。所存在的就是存在,安提贡尼的无法动摇,无法屈服的立场,就是被固定在这个,在这个表面。
She rejects everything else. The stance of the-race-is-run is nowhere better illustrated than here. And whatever else one relates it to, is only a way of causing uncertainty or disguising the absolutely radical character of the position of the problem in the text.